PBS
Pbs: Antiques Roadshow: Preserving Antique Books
PBS provides this antiques Road Show article that provides advise about collecting rare books.
PBS
Pbs Antiques Roadshow: African American
This site from PBS gives advise on finding and collecting African American collectables.
PBS
Pbs: Antiques Roadshow: Ancient Beauties: Collecting Cameos
Advise on collecting cameos and on determining their origin, value, and subject matter.
PBS
Pbs: Antiques Roadshow: Tips of the Trade
Advise on finding valuable collectibles, and tools that would be useful in helping you reveal their worth.
PBS
Pbs Antiques Roadshow: Detecting Faberge Fakes
Information and advise on Faberge collectibles and determining the fakes from the real thing. A good site to learn about investing in authentic collectibles.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Fad or Fortune
This lesson focuses on collectibles and how they retain, lose, or gain value. In each round of a trading simulation, students will learn more about the value of their collectibles and discuss why items gain or lose value. They will...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Collecting for Fun . . . And Profit?
Art, baseball cards, coins, comic books, dolls, jewelry and stamps are just a few examples of the many things people collect. While some people collect for fun, others hope to profit. In this lesson, students explore how supply and...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Play Ball
Make a table to figure out if a baseball valued at $3000 in 1927 is worth more than a baseball valued at $3 million in 1999. Which is a better investment?